I'm with core on this one.  You better be careful, especially since you're
dealing with bank files.  What is the nature of the files your
transfering?  Did I catch that you want to change their system over to a
Linux backend?  (Did you)/(are you going to) have to pull teeth to make
that happen?

I'm sure everyone knows how I feel about passwordless SSH logons by now ;)

- Sebastian


On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Charles Stevenson wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0700, Garrett P. Taylor wrote:
> > I'm working with the bank trying to set up some automated file transfers
> > using SCP/SFTP. 
> 
> Egads.
> 
> > The biggest problem was prompting for password making scripting the
> > whole thing, well, impossible. I got them to send me a .PEM file which
> > has a private and public key. How do I make OpenSSH use it? I'm working
> > from cygwin at the moment if that matters. I can do it from Linux if
> > needed and will probably switch there eventually anyway since the cron
> > daemon seems to work a lot better than Windows's stupid task schedule
> > thing.
> 
> http://webjob.sourceforge.net/Files/Recipes/openssl-convert-ssl-key-to-ssh-keypair.txt
> 
> Good luck.  Hopefully you are not transfering anything too
> sensitive. ;-)
> 
> peace,
> core
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